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John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession, John Hellmann takes a thoroughly original approach to understanding Kennedy's star power and his carefully crafted public image. Tracing Kennedy's self-creation as diligent scholar, bashful hero, and sensitive rebel-cued by cultural figures such as Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Cary Grant-and the images of Kennedy in the aftermath of his assassination, Hellmann reveals the painstaking transformation of private life into public persona, of a man into perhaps the major American myth of our time.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Kennedy Obsession
• Subtitle: The American Myth of JFK
• Author: John Hellmann
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780231107983
• ISBN: 0231107986
• ID: 04557268
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 163 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. August 1997

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